Promotional photo of Billy Woods by Natalia Vacheishvili

Best of 2025

Albums
  1. Billy Woods – Golliwog (Backwoodz Studios)
  2. Lindstrom – Sirius Syntoms (Feedelity)
  3. Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark (We Are Busy Bodies)
  4. Xhosa Cole – On A Modern Genius Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane Records)
  5. Various Artists – Different Circles: Ping Volume One (Different Circles)
  6. Bill Orcutt – Another Perfect Day (Palilalia Records)
  7. Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer (Warp)
  8. Bitchin Bajas – Inland See (Drag City)
  9. Joe Lovano – Homage (ECM)
  10. Earl Sweatshirt – Live Laugh Love (Tan Cressida)
  11. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills – That Wasn’t A Dream (Impulse/New Deal)
  12. Trio of Bloom (Nels Cline, Craig Taborn, Marcus Gilmore) (Pyroclastic Records)
  13. Piers Faccini and Ballake Sissoko – Our Calling (No Format)
  14. Chris Corsano Bill Orcutt – Empty Bottle (Palilalia Records)
  15. Orcutt Shelley Miller – Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current Records)
  16. Djrum – Under Tangled Silence (Houndstooth)
  17. Rich Dawson – End of the Middle (Weird World)
  18. Nels Cline – Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  19. Pulp – More (Rough Trade)
  20. Various Artists – Kompakt Total 25 (Kompakt)
Singles Not on Top 20 Albums

Offset – Run It Up
Central Cee ft 21 Savage – GBP
Justin Bieber – Daisies
Tame Impala – Loser
Slick Rick – Stress
Bancal – Brancard
Nine Inch Nails – Infiltrator

REISSUES

Polygon Window – Surfing On Sine Waves (Warp)
OutKast – Stankonia (Light In The Attic)

GIGS
  1. New York Winter Jazzfest (Jenny Scheinman, Trio Imagination w/ Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, David Virelles, Paul Cornish, Darius Jones, Matthew Shipp), City Winery and Loove Labs, Jan 10-11
  2. John Zorn: New  Masada Quartet, Roulette, May 23
  3. aya and Eye, Powerhouse Arts, Dec. 5
  4. Gwenifer Raymond at Public Records, Dec. 6
  5. Outlook Festival: Michael Rother Plays Neu! and Harmonia, Knockdown Center, Mar. 30

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